Blog Audience: Continuums of Care
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What Do We Know (So Far) About Homelessness Funding in the FY 2024 Budget?
Last Saturday, President Biden signed into law a bill providing funding for the rest of fiscal year 2024 for some federal agencies. These include the Department of Housing and Urban…
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What is Preventing Progress on Unsheltered Homelessness?
The number of people enduring unsheltered homelessness rose in most communities across the country last year. Homelessness response…
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Keeping Up the Momentum: System Improvement as a Year-Round Process
Just thinking about the yearly Notice Of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) process can create feelings of anxiety, stress, and dread amongst homeless service providers and Continuum of Care (CoC)…
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How the Federal Strategic Plan Can Prevent and End Homelessness
The National Alliance to End Homelessness supports the new Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness, released recently by…
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Expressing Gratitude, Looking Forward
As 2022 comes to a close, here at the National Alliance to End Homelessness we are thinking about all of the things we are grateful for – but also about the work ahead of us. We want to…
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Illustrating the Limits of Homeless Sector Wages: Employees Likely Struggle to Pay the Rent
Homeless service providers shouldn’t have to worry about becoming homeless themselves. Yet, with provider salaries that struggle to keep up with the cost of living, and organizations that…
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Moving The Needle: Leveraging the CoC Program Competition NOFO for Justice and Equity
Ensuring the homeless system is just and equitable should be at the core of its design and infused through all aspects of year-round…
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Improving Assistance to LGBTQ+ Individuals
There has been a sharp increase in the number of LGBTQ individuals personally experiencing discrimination across the United States, according to a recent report from GLAAD – 24 percent…
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How CoCs Can Engage Local Leaders on Affordable Housing
With the recent release of the 2022 Continuum of Care (CoC) Program Competition Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has…
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There’s a Right Way and a Wrong Way to Address Encampments
Recent polls of Angelenos show that leading up to the mayoral election, demand for an urgent, constructive response to the crisis of homelessness is higher than ever. The primary results…